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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

While overall revenue including services and license support rose 4% year over year to reach $10.5 Big reasons for the decline were operating expenses for cloud services and license support, which increased 23% to $1.3 A big issue for Oracle is that it is expensive to maintain the momentum for its own cloud growth. billion.

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Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

GeekWire

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle in May 2019. While Microsoft was an early pioneer in personal computing, it missed the mobile and search waves, didn’t participate in the consumer social networking wave, and was coming from behind on cloud. This Sunday, Feb.

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The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest

The Verge

Fatemi says the live conversation app was “miscategorized” as social audio. Next week, at the conference Podcast Movement, Fatemi says she and Cuban will take the stage to announce a partnership with podcast hosting service Libsyn. But the email does also make a couple other announcements about the future of the app and its vision.

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T-Mobile: ‘We Know How the Hacker Did It’

SecureWorld News

The personal information includes name, address, date of birth, driver's license information, and Social Security numbers. Resource] SecureWorld Conferences to get the latest on cybersecurity best practices and hear interesting perspectives from industry leaders. T-Mobile data breach details.

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Thoughts from the Walkley Public Affairs conference - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

This is deeply relevant to the issue of blocking or allowing social networks in the enterprise. On the next panel, Mark Pesce commented that social networks in Australia are extremely shallow. At the Future of Journalism conference comments that Roy Greenslade made about Andrew Jaspan, editor of The Age, were immediately heard.

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Real estate startup Place comes out of nowhere with $100M round, led by Goldman at $1B valuation

GeekWire

” Place offers its products under three different models, Kinney said: software as a service, allowing agents to license its products a la carte ; a partnership model where agents use all of Place’s services and share a portion of their profits with the company; and consumer services including mortgage, title and escrow.

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Six Trends that are transforming Living Online: Presentation at Influence conference - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Pipes , while Ning allowed people to set up their own social networks. Social revolution The online space is being driven by powerful trends to openness, transparency, and accessibility, from open source through open APIs. September 8, 2007 3:13 AM Marnix Catteeuw said: Think that technology trends are driving social change.

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